After becoming Catholic at Easter, Avalon graduate preparing to study at University of Maryland
Rohan Sandhu, who entered the Catholic Church at Easter, credits his faith formation and conversion directly to his years of study at the Avalon School in Wheaton, which he attended since kindergarten and graduated from on May 22.
“Avalon itself taught me what it means to be a Catholic, not as much in the classes, but in the people, I was surrounded by, growing up in the environment of Avalon…people who taught me what it really meant to live in a Catholic community,” he wrote in an email interview with the Catholic Standard.
Sandhu recalls his gratitude for the education he received, the tight-knit school community, which he considers his second home, and the teachers who gave him a greater appreciation of his favorite subjects, calculus and physics.
“As I leave Avalon, (my thoughts) are a mix of sadness and joy, because I’m leaving the place where I’ve grown up and my life is changing completely, but I’m happy that I’ll still be close by,” writes Sandhu, who will study civil engineering this fall at the University of Maryland in College Park. “I’ve always liked science and math, and I want to see them applied to the world.”